Monitoring, control and surveillance operation to help stop illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing a success
Monitoring, control and surveillance operation to help stop illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing a success.
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Entries by Sakaio Manoa
FFA extends condolences on passing of Tuvalu Deputy Prime Minister
The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) extends its deepest condolences and expresses its profound grief following the untimely passing of the Minister of Fisheries and Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Tuvalu, Honourable Minute Alapati Taupo. “Late Honourable Taupo was a great Pacific Statesman and was deeply committed to the people of Tuvalu […]
Regional Cooperation ensures 17 Passengers rescued from boat in distress
17 passengers were returned safely to their loved ones thanks to the combined effort of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) Aerial Surveillance Program (ASP) aircraft, the Royal Solomon Islands Police (RSIPF) Maritime Division and Australia’s HMAS Ararat over the weekend. The FFA aircraft was tasked with a Search and Rescue request from the […]
Pacific Sunrise battles on through challenges
Nuku’alofa – It is the only locally registered and owned tuna fishing company that is still operating in Tonga today. And despite the challenges the country and its tuna fishing industry has had to endure since 2020, Pacific Sunrise Fishing is still battling through. On 9 January 2019, the Matangi Tonga ran an interview with […]
Pacific tuna fishery protections in place for 2021
Pacific Island countries have worked with fishing nations to secure crucial protection measures next year for an industry worth over US$1 billion to local economies and employing around 24,000 following global meetings last week. Pacific Island Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) Director General, Dr Manu Tupou-Roosen said the virtual meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission* (WCPFC) […]
Transforming digital design in Pacific Fisheries
The ongoing, sustainable management of the Pacific’s offshore fisheries is the focus of a new NZD$18 million Arrangement signed between the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) and the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA). The five-year Arrangement, signed in Honiara on Friday, gives funding and planning certainty to an industry that contributes an […]
Fisheries experts give inspiration to Pacific youth on World Tuna Day
The tuna that ‘feeds the world’ was acknowledged in a week of activities celebrating the Pacific Tuna which contributes a third of the world’s tuna supply. Kicking off on UN World Tuna Day, a joint social media initiative from Pacific Island Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) and The Pacific Community (SPC), Teen Tuna Tok, saw the voices […]
Western and Central Pacific Ocean Sustainable tuna stocks
A Sea Change Two decades of action and a singular success: The Western and Central Pacific Ocean is now the only major ocean area where all tuna stocks are harvested sustainably
Tonga tuna sector feeling the heat
Nuku’alofa – The Tonga tuna fishing industry is feeling the heat from challenges it has faced in the first four months of 2022, adding to the woes it has faced in the last five years. On 15 January this year the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai volcanic eruption and the ensuing tsunami-devastated islands in the Ha’apai Group and those […]
The world’s first 100 percent sustainable tuna fishery
The Western and Central Pacific Oceanic Fisheries Management Story 2000-2021 100 percent sustainable fishery
A sea change: Two decades of action and a singular success
More than two decades of action led to an improbable success story: The Western and Central Pacific Ocean is now the only major ocean area where tuna are harvested sustainably. Read how this has been possible: http://ow.ly/8v3C50IU2P2 #WorldTunaDay @UNDP @theGEF @TunaFFA FFA’s TunaPacific: Fisheries news and views: Read More
Increased support for Pacific tuna fisheries
Increased support for Pacific tuna fisheries: Increasing employment and economic benefits from the Pacific’s offshore fisheries is the focus of a new NZD$5 million partnership between Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA). The partnership was announced today at the 7th Our Ocean Conference in Palau, by Minister for Pacific Peoples and […]